His guard was passed by Arona, Nogueira, Bigfoot... Who else? They are all BJJ blackbelts. Arona was at the time one of the best BJJ'ers of the time, and Nogueira's MMA BJJ was also spectacular. Bigfoot is huge and passed from halfguard after a reversal.
You are really trying to stretch it out by saying his guard is shitty.
well, who else has put him on his back? mark coleman, who got to mount and backmount, kevin randleman, who also passed (well, sort of), mark hunt, who didn't really actively pass but still spent like 5 minutes in sidecontrol, and HMC. i don't think he passed the guard, i guess that's pretty great.
I'll use reverse psychology so that you MAYBE understand how ridiculous your statements are:
Miyao's guard sucks. He never gets off his back. He never tries to standup and doesn't turtle, even when he can. Instead of going to a safe turtle, he spins around, goes inverted (LOL, self-pin) and goes to closed guard again. And then he sits for ridiculous amounts of time while holding an opponents leg instead of just standing up. It's shitty beyond shitty, he never escapes the pin. Oh, and nevermind when he goes for that leg-knot-Berimbolo thing, just to take his back... which doesn't score ANY points and is useless because there are no chokes in sport sambo.
that wasn't exactly reverse psychology, but i'll play along.
miyaos get sweeps from the guard, they get submissions from the guard, and their guard is never passed. i never once mentioned any points, in any of my posts. the no chokes part is also pretty unnecessary, because all my points stand in an MMA environment, and that one is just dumb.
sorry, but you truly didn't think this through.
That's the way a sambo/judo guy would think and judge Miyao's guard if they disregarded any other style's specifics and rulesets or were just haters.
Wether you like it or not, he got plenty of submissions and has a very active bottom game which is effective in sambo and MMA.
no, that's how someone without any idea of the guard would view their guard.
you begin your reasoning with a flaw, trying to asses their guard from the point of view of someone who prefers not to play the guard or views it as an inferior position. get this: the fact that fedor's sambo / judo background plays a large role in him using a lazy guard that gets passed a lot, and the fact that he compensates for it by having great reversals once it's passed
does not make his guard any better.
using this reasoning is exactly the same as saying that mirko filipovic's guard is great, because he holds on for dear life until they stand him up and he kicks his opponent in the face, knocking him out cold. he did both of those things very effectively and he was an amazing fighter, but his guard was still crap.
being good at the game without the excessive use of your guard does not make you inferior. but it doesn't automatically make your guard any good, either. there really is no other way to say this, to be honest. if you can't see that, we don't have much else to discuss here.